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Having upgraded an XDA Mini S with the new Imate rom I (like a lot of others) have noticed a significant change in the life of the battery.
For example last night the battery was reading 78%, and left on standby for 12 hours it still showed 78%.
However with wifi and blutooth disabled, I used the phone to make a 1 minute call, and the battery dropped by 4% to 74%. I made another call 15 minutes later and it dropped from 74% to 69%.
That is a lot of consumption for a 1 minute phone call.
Is anyone else experiencing this?
What other factors may be contributing to the consumption when the phone is used for calls?
Any input would be appreciated.
Hey everyone, I am currently running rc33 jfreak 1.42 on my phone. I was running 5.0.1G and. When I was running that rom i t seemed like my battery life was longer. Now tfhat I'm back on jfreak my battery is draining faster. Has any one else seen improved battery life with the magic rom?
I recently switched from JF 1.42 RC33 to 5.0G and saw no noticeable battery life difference. I did however notice a very noticeable increase in browser speed, which was awesome.
Well today I'm on jfreak and my battery is constantly draining, the only reason I flashed back was to test the battery life
I would say that since I started using Haykuro's Magic builds, my battery life has definitely increased. However, I suspect that this is because the device now uses less charge when it is not actively being used (i.e. standby time is longer) - I'm not using it as my primary phone at the moment as I'm on vacation in the US and I've a prepaid Tracfone that serves for the most part.
A heavy user probably wouldn't notice much difference.
Regards,
Dave
My battery life was pretty bad with 5.01H I'm talking like 10% per 15 minutes of use.
My standby time was great on 5.02.h but I noticed it took longer to charge.
I think the H build drains faster than the G
It's the standby times which are greatly increased. For instance, I took my G1 off charge at 6:45am this morning, it just sat in my pocket until lunch break at 2pm and I was at 99% charge. Surfed for 30mins at lunch and it's at 92%. It then sat in my pocket until I checked it again at 5:30PM, where it was 90%. It's now almost 7PM and the battery is sitting at 88%.
5.0.1G. Standard battery, Wifi/GPS/BT off. 3g on. 20% screen. It still drains quite quickly when used, I think it's better but hard to say how much better.
When I had RC9 on there, even in standby it would drain quite quickly.
When i first flashed just 5.0 i charged it to 100% took it off the charger and fell asleep for 2 hours, when i woke up the battery percent was at 92% and i was using the sapphire radio
I agree.
I think google did a lot of battery optimization in standby mode with 1.5.
If I don't turn on my g1 all day, the battery life barely goes down at all.
Of course if you do use the g1, it still drains battery like before because there's not much you can do when you are using 3g, have the lcd turned on, and the cpu chugging along. They all use a lot of power.
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It's the standby times which are greatly increased. For instance, I took my G1 off charge at 6:45am this morning, it just sat in my pocket until lunch break at 2pm and I was at 99% charge. Surfed for 30mins at lunch and it's at 92%. It then sat in my pocket until I checked it again at 5:30PM, where it was 90%. It's now almost 7PM and the battery is sitting at 88%.
5.0.1G. Standard battery, Wifi/GPS/BT off. 3g on. 20% screen. It still drains quite quickly when used, I think it's better but hard to say how much better.
When I had RC9 on there, even in standby it would drain quite quickly.
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DaUub said:
When i first flashed just 5.0 i charged it to 100% took it off the charger and fell asleep for 2 hours, when i woke up the battery percent was at 92%
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Do you have any background processes like twitter, IM, etc? Those could be using up the battery even if you aren't actually doing anything with the phone.
The increase in my case is VERY noticable. At minimum a boost of 50% battery life.
yeah the battery life has increased
but ive only noticed it while using just one or two apps every couple of hours
my usual day includes texting alot
2 or 3 phone calls less than 4 min
fb app, twitter app, nba app, a game or two, and other stuff
my brightness is around 25 percent
and my 3g wifi gps auto sync is on all the time
it lasts longer than it used to
but the second i start surfing the web and reading forums or using greed to read a bunch of rss feeds the battery life drains amazingly fast
im on 5.0.1h
gonna give the g build a try and then check out 5.0.2h later this week
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Do you have any background processes like twitter, IM, etc? Those could be using up the battery even if you aren't actually doing anything with the phone.
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i was using gtalk on 5.0.1 and it didnt run my battery down. on 1.42 my battery dies very fast
definite battery increase i actually didnt have to charge my battery allllll day w? moderate use..
I believe the increase in battery life in standby is more due to everyone having to wipe their data and reinstall applications.
Previously you probably had a ton of applications, that start as services, and run ALL day in the background. Applications such as chomp, twitter, hello aim, even stuff like officedroid remain open in the background because they are registered as services. Eliminating a number of these programs due to wipe is probably the reason why the battery life has improved so much.
but i was still using programs i used before, i used all of them except task manager, droid sans, and chomp sms
i'm seeing alot better response from 5.0.1h build. The static rc33 was draining the battery. Actually that's how i got it for so cheap cause the person i bought it from hated that the battery died so quick. I use my phone constantly for work and when i got home tonight i was at half a battery.
I'm back to 1.42 also i flashed 5.0g first and didn't really pay attention to the battery use but did notice a very big increase in the speed (loads very fast) then flashed 5.o.1h and it was crazy how fast the battery was on e............ Im thinking bout flashing back to 5.0g just 4 the super quick speed !
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It's the standby times which are greatly increased. For instance, I took my G1 off charge at 6:45am this morning, it just sat in my pocket until lunch break at 2pm and I was at 99% charge. Surfed for 30mins at lunch and it's at 92%. It then sat in my pocket until I checked it again at 5:30PM, where it was 90%. It's now almost 7PM and the battery is sitting at 88%.
5.0.1G. Standard battery, Wifi/GPS/BT off. 3g on. 20% screen. It still drains quite quickly when used, I think it's better but hard to say how much better.
When I had RC9 on there, even in standby it would drain quite quickly.
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Following on from this.... It's 24hrs since I last charged it and the battery is currently at 73%. Very light usage but shows the battery can last if needed.
anyone feel as if their battery life sucks? I do have 4g on at all times but I didnt think it would make that big of a difference in terms of battery life.
See my post here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?goto=newpost&t=839935
Try installing a monitoring app and see if your init process is hitting the CPU hard. I haven't heard from any other mt4g users with the same problem, but lots of.desirehd users have it.
I also have seen my suspend process eating 50%+ CPU when the phone is locked/screen off. Haven't found a fix for that yet though.
I'm getting a full 24 hours of heavy texting, moderate phone calls. Battery life is better than my magic... im having no issues.
Yes, I woke up this morning and my phone was already blinking and battery is on 8%. I left it overnight with more then 60%
A big problem also is that SetCpu cannot force the scale. If limit to 768 Mhz it still scale to 1024. So not I am sure that my ScreenOff profile with 245 Mhz DOESN'T WORK!
THAT'S SUX!!!
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Yes, I woke up this morning and my phone was already blinking and battery is on 8%. I left it overnight with more then 60%
A big problem also is that SetCpu cannot force the scale. If limit to 768 Mhz it still scale to 1024. So not I am sure that my ScreenOff profile with 245 Mhz DOESN'T WORK!
THAT'S SUX!!!
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Weird I leave my phone at full overnight and its still at full when I wake up.
Try disabling the preflock that might help before I did that it wasnt scaling properly now afterwards it is.
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I have frozen a few apps and use advanced task killer every time i start up 9a lot of apps come on at start-up).
The result is pretty good battery life. I have only gone dead when I had a few apps (like GPS navigation) running in background and forgot about them.
I'm having 0 issues with my battery. It easily beats out the battery life on the Samsung Vibrant I had.
I'm having issues too. My battery life today was 40% at 1 PM, and when I left this morning, it was full. I hardly even used the phone except to check email :/ I have brightness on auto and wifi off. Not sure what the issue is.
My battery life has been really good. A typical cycle is charge to full and disconnect power at 10:00 pm. Up at 6:00 AM, battery is still on 100%. Today my use has been moderate to heavy. It's now 2:30 PM and I have 68% left. I typically have around 30 percent left when I put in back on the charger. I'm happy with that.
Wifi, Bluetooth, GPS, etc., are kept off until I use them. I do however leave Background data and Auto-sync on all the time.
I turned on USB Debugging as recommended and my battery life is much better. Right now it hasn't been charged in 9 hours and is at 79%. I've downloaded 2 apps, updated 3 apps, sent multiple emails, light internet use, and 3-4 calls. I'm unrooted and don't use any task killers.
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I turned on USB Debugging as recommended and my battery life is much better. Right now it hasn't been charged in 9 hours and is at 79%. I've downloaded 2 apps, updated 3 apps, sent multiple emails, light internet use, and 3-4 calls. I'm unrooted and don't use any task killers.
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That's awesome. I'm going to turn on USB Debugging mode and see if I can squeeze a little more juice out of it.
I have had intermittent battery-drain issues too. On Saturday morning my battery went from 100 down to 76% in a matter of an hour or two with hardly any use. I did a restart and it seemed better. I've also gotten into the habit of restarting my phone once a day, right before I take it off the charger in the morning. I've turned off quick boot, which I read somewhere in the forums can affect battery life. It's been pretty good the last few days. I'm at 68% now off charger for 9.5 hrs with moderate amounts of wifi, web browsing, email, and 3G network usage. I'm new to android devices so I don't have much to compare that to, but it's working for my schedule.
heavy user - fully charged phone at 7am ... start using after 7:30am
check emails, fb, txt, barely to no calls.....phone will be down to about 20% at 1:30~2pm....
yes the battery is lame...but this is a known issue with HTC...the 3.8 screen drains a lot of battery also the constantly searching for HSPA+ and 3G...
I do notice when screen is off....this phone still drains battery !!! bad =(
left over night at about 65% left in the morning I got red blinking led saying phone is below 10% .... 50% gone!!!
I think restarting the phone after a full charge is a good idea....also maybe turn off quick boot?
*update* yes I found that when you have a bad signal and it's jumping between E and H ... this eats up battery
also installed Advance Task Killer (for froyo) this helps~ now from 8am my phone can last until about 4pm getting about 3~3.5hrs more life
Mine lasts all day with everything on, playing games, email, text, etc, etc.
It is great, best phone I have had. Not sure what the issue is unless it is root.
It depends where you live.
If you get a good antenna signal, your battery will last.
At my apartment signal is low, so phone is constantly between UMTS and GPRS, plus phone is trying to hold H, so that drains the battery.
My signal strength parameters:
between -101 dBm and -107 dBm (where -110dBm is the edge of the signal/loosing signal)
3 asu and 7 asu
Has anyone noticed their battery life seems shorter since the update ? I installed the official froyo update last night and it seems I'm running out of juice much quicker than before.
At first mine ran down faster. I ran it all the way down. Charged it. And ran it all the way down again and charged. It seems back to normal.
I didn't have any issues. Maybe you changed something else as well? Could always try a few recharge cycles and see if it stabilizes..
I was running the leaked 2.2 and I flashed to official 2.2. My battery life is almost double what it was. I can't complain one bit about battery life, although I have other gripes with the official Froyo release.
I'm with icepop on this one.. I was running the stock rogers rom pre-update and now with the official rogers 2.2 I'm getting at least double the use before having to charge again.
I'm having battery issues with the new stock Froyo. I lose a huge amount of juce when in standby. I thought I may have my widgets updating too often so I charged it up and put it into airplane mode last night. The phone lost about 1% per hour in airplane mode. IDK what is normal but that seems like a lot to me. I didn't have any apps running, except my alarm was set for the morning.
I have SystemPanel installed and my cpu load NEVER goes below 10 percent, even in airplane mode. I suspect this is a large part of the issue. In app history, system and system processes are always on the top of the list and are around 3% each. IDK what controls this or how to lower it. I would love some feedback from someone else with SystemPanel just to see how our numbers compare. Overall the battery life I'm experiencing is pretty terrible and a buddy of mine's Fascinate has much better battery life (hence something must be wrong somewhere). He and I were skiing all day over the weekend and when we got back to our cars, my phone was half dead and his had lost almost zero juice. This displeases me.
mine's was better actually. but i didnt stayon it for long
My initial results with 2.2 were very bad (10% drop per hour when idling). I reset the phone back to 2.1 then re-installed 2.2. This did not help. Now I did this again (2.1 then 2.2) but this time I have not re-installed my apps and have not rooted (yet). So far, battery life seems to be normal. I suspect that some of my applications might mis-behave when installed on 2.2. I am planning to add them slowly and watch the battery.
Not here, seems the same to me
Mine is terrible ! I don't know what it might have been on 2.1 as I upgraded fairly quickly. Essentially I charge all night and then disconnect from power at 6:30am and then by 4:30pm I'm out of juice (phone shuts off). Any ideas here? I'm not running anything extravegant (email only) and hardly make any calls.
Whenever you flash to a new ROM, wait for at least a week of normal usage before you judge the battery life. The reason is simple, your battery stats are reset after ROM flash and your new OS needs time to learn how your battery drains before it can give you accurate readings.
If you can't wait for that long, you need follow the battery calibration thread to force a manual calibration of the battery.
I'll give it a week and see how it is then. Definitely is draining much quicker now though. I think It acted similiarly when I first got the phone as well. If I recall correctly the batter life sucked when I first got it, but then a week or so seemed to get much better.
I did the manual battery recalibration (let it die, charge while off, turn on and bump charge...etc). Last night I lost about 2.5% of battery per hour while in standby. This seems improved since calibration but its still pretty terrible IMHO. Is this in line with the amount of drain other are getting or am I draining more than usual?
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I did the manual battery recalibration (let it die, charge while off, turn on and bump charge...etc). Last night I lost about 2.5% of battery per hour while in standby. This seems improved since calibration but its still pretty terrible IMHO. Is this in line with the amount of drain other are getting or am I draining more than usual?
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Running stock since purchasing the Captivate back in August, and so far battery life actually seems to be routinely as good if not better than 2.1. I must admit I didn't use my phone a huge amount yesterday (except for about an hour plus of downloading a bunch of wallpapers off Zedge for some ungodly reason lol), and after 18 hours of the phone being on I was still over 50% battery life left. 2.5% in standby doesn't sound like all is well - you must have something running in the background or similar issue. I have a live background, sync 5 e-mail accounts (granted, only one of those is every 15 minutes - the others are every thirty minutes, every hour, and once a day on two of them), and with light use I am getting over 40 hours with 2.2 so far (about in line with 2.1, but seems maybe just a little better). Heavy use I am dropping more like to the 12 - 18 hour mark (heavy use for me means the screen on more than off, actively playing games or using apps, large amounts of texting, etc. Solid game playing I haven't figured out a drain yet, but on some games it seems like I can drop almost the whole battery in close to 10 hours). At your rate of 2.5% per hour in standby you would only make it forty hours without even using the phone. I have been using mine just a little this morning (FB check, logging in to one of the desktops at work remotely to make some changes, live background running, WiFi sleep policy is set to when screen is off, but to be honest that is about it) and I haven't moved off the 100% mark yet and the phone has been unplugged over an hour and a half.
All that said though, as other users have stated you might want to give it a little more time for the system to recalibrate the battery usage. I would definitely check your processor usage though regularly to see if anything seems 'off'. One thing that caused me problems was that my SNS service would be running but then would get stuck in a pattern of 'Restarting' - would drain my battery rapidly.
It has been said that bettery drain is not linear. First 5% goes real fast. So, you need to judget the average over a day of use, not first hour or so. I'm still in first week of ROM flashing. So I can't confirm anything yet.
See my battery stats recalibration steps here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=765656
Also, TheYar has a great write-up on identifying battery drain issues here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=806211
I recently bought a g2x. I previously had a Optimus v with cm7 that I liked, so I pretty much immediately installed cm7 on my g2x. I've noticed my battery will drain 25% on stand by overnight. Just wondering if this is normal, and if the stock rom is any better in this regard?
Well...its normal but at the same time its not, and i'll tell you why. Mine drains about 5-10% overnight (around 7 hours) and with wifi on it is usually even less, about 3-5%.
Though there HAVE been instances where it has drained about 20-30%, usually I just pull the battery (or restart the phone a couple of times) and it seems to fix it till the next time it happens.
In fact just last night it drained 35% =\ but normally it is around 10%.
Im on weapon G2x
My phone drains about 3% overnight. Wifi and data off. CM7 with Faux kernel and setcpu screen off profile.
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It honestly depends what kind of network signal you're getting.
I've had mine drain a considerable amount one night just because I had low signal. Especially when you have low signal AND data on.
Mine drops 5-10% at night, sometimes less. I either keep it on 2G with data off or wifi with wifi calling on. Wifi calling seems to save a ton of battery.
But, leaving data on and 3G on I drop 30% or so.
yeah, as everyone says, depends on your usage (and/or signal). i've gotten 12h, i've also had 4 days, it really differs on lots of factors.